An airline passenger has shared a photo on Twitter to express the outrage he felt after finding something so disgusting in his vegetarian meal that it made a passenger seated nearby become violently ill.

Vegetarian journalist Rahul Raghuvanshi, who is based in Boston, was flying Air India from Hyderabad to Chicago in economy class when he discovered a large cockroach in his dinner. Even worse, it appears to be a partly eaten cockroach.